Does Apple Take 30% of Your Restaurant App Orders?
The 30% App Store cut does not apply to food orders. Here is what Apple and Google actually charge a café app, and what you really pay instead.
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The 30% App Store cut does not apply to food orders. Here is what Apple and Google actually charge a café app, and what you really pay instead.
The six review rules that reject café and restaurant apps most often, quoted from Apple's and Google's own guidelines, with the fix for each.
Impressions, product page views, first-time downloads: what the two app dashboards actually measure, and how to tag your own links so you can tell what's working.
The privacy disclosures both app stores require, mapped to what a Square-based café ordering app actually collects — and the three mistakes that stall a launch.
Developer accounts, the $99 and $25 fees, review timelines, and the rejection traps — plus how a done-for-you app gets published without you touching Xcode.
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